OpenEuphoria

Re: de-zip files in Eu?

• Posted by Bob Silum <qubit at phreaker.net> May 26, 2004
• 454 views

Kat wrote:

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>On 26 May 2004, at 9:17, CJ Silver wrote:
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>>Kat wrote:
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>>>I somehow found some files online, they are 700 megs zipped down to 200 
>>>megs. Has anyone managed to use winzip's unzip from a Eu program to 
>>>unzip/extract files from .zip files? Zip.e only extracts info about the
>>>files,
>>>it doesn't extract anything.
>>>
>>>Kat
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>>>
>>I know you're looking for euphoria code for this type of thing, but I've 
>>always packaged a windows port of the *nix unzip program and made a 
>>system call instead. Works rather well and the unzip program's pretty small.
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>I looked all over, and saw no command line for the winzip v8 which i have, 
>and none of the readme had any mention of command line use, so i wouldn't 
>know which parameters in which order to pass to it in a system(). I did find 
>my olde dos pkunzip v2.04g, circa 1993, which came with a built-in dos help 
>screen for parameters, and !surprise! it opens the files i am trying to get
>now!
>I think i got it when new, to run on msdos v3 way back when. Twelve year old 
>software, good as new!  Thanks for the hint, CJ.
>
>Kat
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http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages.html

That site has just about every GNU utility ported native to windows. 
Once I used the command line unzip utility, I never went back to winzip. 
AFAIK, since it's all published under GNU/GPL stuff, it's free to put 
with your program (provided you put a link in the readme to a place that 
has the source i think).